PUBLICAN FINED £425
Customers of the Georgetown pub thought they were drinking—until their publican appeared in Court. He was fined £425, madd up of £400 for possessing untaxed liquor and so defrauding the Government and only £25 for selling it in bottles from which the original labels had not been and so defrauding his trusting customers, who drank the stuff as genuine! Because this happened in Otago it does not follow that it happens there. Only last month a Governrfteiijt 'Analyst stated publicly that "the illicit spirit trade in Auckland nourished by using .spirit bottles with original labels intact and high premiums.—up to 2, (>—were paid for such empty bottles!" So in this province too some are paying full pricc for genuine labels and more than doubtful contents. Inserted by Bay of Plenty S,D.A. Temperance' Society, P.B.A.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 83, 22 June 1945, Page 5
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137PUBLICAN FINED £425 Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 83, 22 June 1945, Page 5
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